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World Stage

Appearing on the world stage can be daunting. Being there brings with it considerable audience expectations. That in itself can be frightening.

What are the demographic characteristics of your usual audience? Where do they usually sit in relation to the world stage?

How do you approach the task of engaging the attention of your audience?

How do you attempt to persuade your audience to act in particular ways?

When do you consider your audience to be a community?

How representative is your audience in relation to the many other audiences existing in the world?

The world stage is where many different audiences observe the same performance. Those audiences have different expectations. Their levels of attention differ. Their interest in being persuaded is variable. They represent widely differing communities.

How have you measured the success of your various performances on various stages, at various stages of your life and career? At what level is your career as a world leader? is it currently in decline?

What sorts of reviews do you usually receive from well-informed critics, or have those eminent persons not yet noticed your qualities?

You may have only been on the world stage during The Social Media Show. You may even believe, as Donald the canary does, that social media, particularly Twitter, is the world stage.

Donald does not appear to be particularly frightened of bad reviews. He merely ignores his critics or deposits something unpleasant in their vicinity.

As the ladies are inclined to agree that global carbon dioxide levels should be returned to the levels of 1789, they believe their actions on the world stage, or even close to it, are usually a heritage performance. They particularly agree that their actions are likely to protect and project an enlightened heritage for future generations to enjoy. After all, the ladies are great respecters of scientific decorum, artistic integrity and moral integrity.

The true world stage exists in Adelaide, as the Affectionate Adelaide Project has long revealed. The true leader of the free world occasionally exists in Adelaide as the enlightened spirit of this location. Most of the Adelaideans are still unaware of those undoubtable facts. They, instead, watch too much television in their free time and listen to the most dreadful radio stations during their working hours.

Unenlightened beings are rarely to be found uttering such words as "Happy birthday most arty Sir Mozarty Mozart".
Unfortunately, such individuals can often be found wandering about in a
confused state on the world stage, or merely in a nation-state.

The management of this theatre supplies significant care and attention towards the additional enlightenment of anyone in need of it. For this reason, inclusive access to the world stage here is occasionally supplied.

If you are yet to establish a respectable reputation on the world stage, why is that? What needs to change for your enlightened leadership to be suitably acknowledged, all things being otherwise equal?

There is much folly on the world stage, as well as much fantasy and absurdity. Yet true world leaders will aways assist in making at least one city of dreams into a reality. However, they will never insist on doing so to the detriment of anyone else.

Many so-called world leaders personify folly, even when they are not on the world stage. Below, for example, is a speech given by a purported world leader from the United States of America, slightly adapted for dramatic purposes:

How slightly I am esteemed in the common vogue of the world, (for
I well know how disingenuously I am decried, even by those who are
themselves the greatest fools,) yet it is from my influence alone that
the whole universe receives her ferment of mirth and jollity: of which
this may be urged as a convincing argument, in that as soon as I
appeared to speak before this numerous assembly all their countenances
were gilded over with a lively sparkling pleasantness: you soon welcomed
me with so encouraging a look, you spurred me on with so cheerful a
hum, that truly in all appearance, you seem now flushed with a good dose
of reviving nectar, when as just before you sat
drowsy and melancholy, as if you were lately come out of some hermit’s
cell. But as it is usual, that as soon as the sun peeps from her eastern
bed, and draws back the curtains of the dark night; or as when,
after a hard winter, the restorative spring breathes a more enlivening
air, nature forthwith changes her apparel, and all things seem to renew
their age; so at the first sight of me you all unmask, and appear in
more lively colours. That therefore, which expert orators can scarce
effect by all their little artifice of eloquence, to wit, raising the
attentions of their auditors to a composedness of thought, this a bare
look from me has commanded.

Many people lack the experience to know the difference between stupidity and a sound performance. They may even fail to understand the essential qualities of a peaceful day.

The world stage is rarely peaceful. There are many auditions taking place on it, some of which are more cacophonous than others. There is certainly a great deal of unreasonable political noise for the judges to endure as a consequence.